Battlestar Galactica: Top 5 Soundtracks

It’s hard to believe that it’s 10 years this October since the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica came to our screens. It still feels like it was yesterday that i was throwing myself down on the couch to catch the latest episode after a day in school. Just last night i finished a marathon of re-watching the entire series for the first time in what must be 5 years if not more. There was so much that i had forgotten about that it was almost as i had watched most of it for the first time.

Aside from the amazing and emotionally moving story line, one of the other crowning jewels of the series has to be its soundtrack. Join me as i count down my 5 favourite tracks from the series and be sure to let me know what it was about the soundtrack of Battlestar Galactica that you loved in the comments below!

5: Scar

For me, this piece really brings on the feeling of the ‘hunt’. Whether you’re the hunter or the hunted the emotions are captured beautiful with the beat of the drums and then the gentle fall back of the violins.

4: Passacaglia

I’ve always been a fan or classical music and this for me is a beautiful fit throughout the Battlestar Galactica series. It helped to capture the feeling of many intense scenes that didn’t call for guns, missiles and base stars but actually helped express the emotional turmoil of the decisions made by various factions that had a profound effect on the survivors of the human race.

3: Battlestar Sonatica

Imagine if you will, that you are a Cylon Basestar floating through the cosmos, feeling the cosmic winds floating over you and that you have the whole galaxy as your playground. This piece helped to beautifully capture moments of wonder on the Cylon Basestars and gave a glimpse in to the life of a hybrid.

2: Kara Remembers

Almost to the point of scary, this amazing piece helps pin together the last few plots of the show in a powerful display of emotion and music. I wont say too much more on this for those who have not seen the show and plan on watching it.

1: Roslin and Adama

Nothing for me captures the beauty and love that runs through the heart of this show but for this one piece. The relationship between Roslin and Adama is perfectly expressed here and genuinely made me become a blubbering mess in the last episode of the series where we find them both in the raptor…. Those who have watched the show will know what i mean by this. Those who have not, you are missing out!

Lead composer for the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack is Brear McCreary and we at Geek Ireland salute him for writing many beautiful and moving pieces of music.

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